Silent Night Fever is the debut album

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 by Swedish

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 melodic death metal

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 band Dimension Zero, distributed jointly through Century Media and Regain Records

Regain Records

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. The title is a play on words of the John Travolta

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 film, Saturday Night Fever

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The album was released after six years of demos

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 and EPs

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 which the band had recorded in-between main projects. Their music has been described as an ode to the early days of Gothenburg death metal, with songwriting more based on the grindcore

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 and thrash metal

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 influences than the NWOBHM inspiration that would permeate later on.

Although not a commercial success, the album received positive critical marks and would help the band release a second album one year later. A cover

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 of the The Beatles

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' "Helter Skelter" is available on the Japan

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ese edition.

Track listing

1. "Silent Night Fever" – 3:20
2. "The Murder-Inn" – 3:01
3. "Through the Virgin Sky" – 4:29
4. "Your Darkest Hour" – 4:08
5. "Not Even Dead" – 3:59
6. "They Are Waiting to Take Us" – 3:50
7. "Until You Die" – 3:45
8. "End" – 2:58
9. "Slow Silence" – 2:04
10. "Helter Skelter" (The Beatles
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    ese bonus track) − 3:00

Line-up

• Jocke Göthberg − vocals
• Jesper Strömblad
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   − guitars and bass
• Glenn Ljungström
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  Glenn Ljungström was the original guitarist of the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames along with the band's founder, Jesper Strömblad. He was a member of In Flames from 1993 until 1997, after which he quit In Flames to support his family with a more stable job. He was fired from multiple...
  
   − guitars
• Hans Nilsson − drums